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also prophetical
as in predictive
being a sign of a later course of events
in retrospect, those lower-than-expected sales numbers were a prophetic indicator of the financial trouble the company would soon be in
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The Messiah is a collection of gnomic scriptural passages that are prophetic in import but offer no story at all.
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Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Hideo Nakata's follow-up to his international smash hit Ringu is a slow-burn ghost story dripping with damp, chilly atmosphere, made even spookier by the film's seemingly prophetic connection to the Cecil Hotel/Elisa Lam case more than a decade later.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
The premise in which Gilliam’s candidacy happens without the normal process of primary approval seems prophetic of the way Kamala Harris was installed by the DNC, overruling the participation and agreement of its members.
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
Its proponents often trafficked in prophetic predictions that AI would eventually bring about the dawn of superhuman intelligence.
—Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Hideo Nakata's follow-up to his international smash hit Ringu is a slow-burn ghost story dripping with damp, chilly atmosphere, made even spookier by the film's seemingly prophetic connection to the Cecil Hotel/Elisa Lam case more than a decade later.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
The premise in which Gilliam’s candidacy happens without the normal process of primary approval seems prophetic of the way Kamala Harris was installed by the DNC, overruling the participation and agreement of its members.
—Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
Its proponents often trafficked in prophetic predictions that AI would eventually bring about the dawn of superhuman intelligence.
—Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Prophetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prophetic. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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